Holy Crap!! It’s been two years since I first posted this!!!!
I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s.
(Just past) 60
So what?
It’s only
a lonely
number.
A digit,
a widget,
a speck.
At 60
some are happy,
some alone
without a home.
Others widowed,
divorced
or forced
into Invisibility.
We are who we are.
poor,
rich,
some think it’s a bitch.
Black
white,
gay, straight
love or hate.
Life is what we make it.
Growing older
has its perks.
There’s Social Security,
more maturity,
AARP.
Medicare,
blue hair,
Sr. Discount @ McDonald’s.
Replace a hip,
Botox a lip.
The knee’s arthritic,
the stomach acidic.
Life is fragile,
And just like that,
Snap!
It could be gone.
Meandering down
the road of life.
Oblivious,
lascivious.
A relationship, or two.
Stopping for a beer,
having a career,
driving with the top down.
Then… SLAM….
brick wall ahead….SIXTY!
Screech of brakes.
For God’s sake.
Sixty’s the new forty?
Bullshit.
Deal with it.
Get your head on straight.
Pete Townsend penned,
“I hope I die before I am old.”
Truth be told?
Older makes wiser.
Wiser makes sense.
Truth to dispense,
and still a lot to learn,
Growing old “gracefully"
is an art in itself.
From middle age
to Sage,
We step into our skin,
and rejoice
that our voice
is heard.
I will be thankful!
I’ll thank the Lord each day
For my three gorgeous girls,
the best friends in the world,
a job that pays the bills.
Wealth, my health,
To love myself
at 60. (two)
If I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s.
(maybe a toke or two would help though)
© 2010 Marlene Dunham
Now, of course my grandbabies, too!
I guess, the older you get the lazier you get!
Thanks for reading my "recycled" crap
I love you all.
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(*10 years ahead of you...*)
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Rated.
SIXTY–TWO
As time goes by, year on year,
There is one thing I hate to hear.
‘Tis kindly meant, of this I’m sure.
Yet this brief phrase I can't endure.
You form these words with lips and tongue;
You call me, “Sixty-two years young!”
I’m sixty-two, that much is true
But I'm not half so young as you.
I've earned the right to be this bold;
I am not young - - -I'm proudly old!
I've trod for years, this earthly stage
And suffered hell to reach this age.
Don’t call me young; it is not true.
I'm old as sin - - - plus Sixty-Two !!
Happy Birthday
May your year be filled with joy and laughter
~R~
Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day
The blueprint of your life
Would begin to glow on earth,
Illuminating all the faces and voices
That would arrive to invite
Your soul to growth.
Praised be your father and mother,
Who loved you before you were,
And trusted to call you here
With no idea who you would be.
Blessed be those who have loved you
Into becoming who you were meant to be,
Blessed be those who have crossed your life
With dark gifts of hurt and loss
That have helped to school your mind
In the art of disappointment.
When desolation surrounded you,
Blessed be those who looked for you
And found you, their kind hands
Urgent to open a blue window
In the gray wall formed around you.
Blessed be the gifts you never notice,
Your health, eyes to behold the world,
Thoughts to countenance the unknown,
Memory to harvest vanished days,
Your heart to feel the world’s waves,
Your breath to breathe the nourishment
Of distance made intimate by earth.
On this echoing-day of your birth,
May you open the gift of solitude
In order to receive your soul;
Enter the generosity of silence
To hear your hidden heart;
Know the serenity of stillness
To be enfolded anew
By the miracle of your being.
~ John O’Donohue ~
Happy Birthday Marlene!! I love the photos...hugs to all your girls, all 5 of them and a big birthday hug for you.
Love you,
Liz
I hate being over sixty, but am grateful for my generally good health and the ability to still get out and about to grow old disgracefully.
I wouldn't change growing up in the Sixties and hope to still find things to enjoy in this decade, God willing.
Have a wonderful birthday.
Enjoy your day!
sky: Great poem - thanks so much for sharing it.
Scyllaa: Always good to see you - thansk for the wishes
Scanner: Avitars are wonderful things aren't they? You don't look anywhere near 60 either :)
Julie: Yes, so far - so good!
Patrick: The possibilities - thanks for reminding me.
Mary & Joan - thank you so much for coming to my little party.
Christine: Sr days at Kohl's - I'll have to check that out. Ha!
Can't wait to give you a big hug in person. Thanks for the love.
Zanelle: Thanks. that's the problem our bodies and minds never feel the same age.
Fay: Thansk for coming by. The girls are only 27 months apart -sometimes the wrong two are mistaken for the twins.
jl, Janie, rita, fernsey: Thank you for coming by to send your wishes.
Aahhh to be 62 again. And yes for me that seems like yesterday....I see it most in my grandchildren....the oldest now ready for college....a foot taller than I am now. I carried him on my back when we went for hikes in the woods. And now I must look up to kiss him.
Your babies are beautiful. Enjoy, enjoy and enjoy.
Ande - Thanks so much. Now if only our children recognized that wisdom...
Kim: Thank you so much for the wishes & the OS friendship these past few years.
Happy Birthday, Sweetpea.
Much love.
Katie
Your poem says it all, I just hit 65, still boggles my mind.
rated with love
Eva: Thanks for coming by.
Kate: yes, it was a very good day and thank you again for your "other" greeting.
Michelle; Thank you
RP: Boggles the mind, yes it does - thank you
kim: Always glad to see you stop by. thanks